Rails Metal: Rails has Mettle … or Metal
One of the greatest features in Rails 2.3 is the Rails Metal piece. It’s part of the goodness that came out of the Rails/Merb merge. Metal provides a layer of functionality that is executed before or...
View Article9 Ways to Use Rails Metal
I wrote a quick overview of Rails Metal earlier and started thinking that it would be nice to provide some examples of how you could use it in your Rails application. Here are 9 ways I thought of off...
View ArticleRails Metal Example #1: Authentication
Last week, I wrote a post listing 9 ways to use rails metal. This is an explanation of the first way to use Rails Metal: Check Authentication. We’re setting up this Rails Metal to handle two scenarios:...
View ArticleStoring Encrypted Data Securely using Active Record
Learn how to save data such as bank information, social security number, or other sensitive information in your Rails application securely by encrypting the data. By using spikex’s gem Strongbox, you...
View ArticleRails Shell Application in 10 easy steps
In this screencast you will see how to make a rails application capable of parse and execute shell commands using the ruby function %x The screencast start with basic shell commands, creation of a...
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TMTC 34 – Writing Code is the Easy Part
Writing Code is the Easy Part is the new slogan for the website. It basically boils down to the fact that putting up syntacticly correct code is the simplest part of coding. More difficult is solving...
View ArticleDevise and CanCan (Authentication and Authorization)
I’ve been working on several applications where I’ve needed not only to verify that someone was logged in, but actually make sure that someone had permission to modify a particular object. There are...
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